T Quotes
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“The confidence Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson exuded from stage, I'm a fan of.”
“The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.”
Source: The Art of Self-Control
“The confidence God gives is the courage to dare a greater life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the application of a ready-made technique, or in imitating the form rather than the substance of scientific procedure, as if one needed only to follow some cooking recipes to solve all social problems. It sometimes almost seems as if the techniques of science were more easily learnt than the thinking that shows us what the problems are and how to approach them.”
“The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.”
“The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it.”
“The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.”
“The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.”
“The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.”
“The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The confidence that overrides insecurity comes from experience. There is no other way.”
Source: The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now
“The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.”
“The confidence we have in God and in ourselves, gives us the courage to dare great things.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The confidence which stops you from preparing is not worthy of having.”
“The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.”
“The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.”
“The confidence you get from knowing about every crash, anywhere in the world, is crucial to delivering a high-quality product that needs to be used in the wild. In the consumer software business, you can't rely on your customers to tell you about crashes—many of them may not be technical enough, and most of them won't bother to take time off of their own important work to give you a useful crash report unless you make it completely automatic.”
Source: Joel on Software
“The confidence you instill in children can change the world.”
Source: ARE YOU READY? A GUIDE TO BE THE BEST VERSION OF YOU: A Self-Help Book for Becoming Your Best Self
“The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self.”
“The confidences of the mad, I could pass my whole life inspiring them. They are a scrupulously honest tribe, whose innocence has no peer but my own.”
Source: Manifestoes of Surrealism
“The confident artist is a fool.”
“The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.”
“The confident you speak it, the stronger the message.”
“The confidentiality of the judicial process would not matter greatly to an understanding and evaluation of the legal system if the consequences of judicial behavior could be readily determined. If you can determine the ripeness of a cantaloupe by squeezing or smelling it, you don't have to worry about the produce clerk's mental processes.”
“The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain peculiarities of ocean currents by the contour of the ocean-bed. But enormous areas are still unexplored.”
“The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“The confirmation for both jobs - 'AMC' and 'Smallville' - came through on the same day, so there was a lot of wine flowing in the Hartley house that night!”
“The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of.”
Source: The Overstory
“The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which others have to strive with infinite pains. They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence.”
“The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.”
“The conflict between Israel and Palestine exists because of the herd mentality and a consciousness of difference. They have to turn on the light of luminous unity to shift the paradigm of awareness and live in each other’s kindness.”
“The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started.”
“The conflict between left and right in modern republics is a sort of perpetual-motion mechanism and negative spiral at the same time. When we support political parties, it is regrettable more than just a matter of adopting certain political beliefs. We are also expected to agree that our party's beliefs are better than those held by the other party. Feelings of hostility and superiority are an inevitable byproduct of partisan competition. The media encourages representatives of both sides to vent their emotions, because this sells newspapers and boosts ratings. When we hear that other disagree viscerally with us, we tend to return the feeling of emotional dislike.”
Source: Red Genes, Blue Genes: Exposing Political Irrationality
“The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.”
“The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.”
“The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.”
“The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.”
Source: Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman
“The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.”
Source: John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848
“The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the counsels of Omnipotence I cannot doubt; it is a part of the great moral improvement in the condition of man, attested by all the records of history. But the conflict will be terrible, and the progress of improvement perhaps retrograde before its final progress to consummation.”
Source: Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848
“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”
“The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.”
“The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month”
“The conflict is internationally recognized as a dispute between India and Pakistan, with the UN recommending a plebiscite in Kashmir.”
“The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.”
“The conflict of chemistry we do not think reprehensible. If we could look at social conflict as neither good nor bad, but simply a fact, we should make great strides in our thinking.”
“The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.”
Source: Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895
“The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.”
Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
“The conflict will always beyond ur strength.The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we'll go for God:"Here's how far I'm going to love,this is how many times I'll turn the other cheek."The test kills the limits of our humanity,til we're like Christ in everything We're left with a choice:Become Christlike or gradually shrivel into superficial hypocrites: angry people who have stopped walking with God, who blame others for our bitterness.”
“The conflict with Hell cannot be maintained by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan.”